Deadspin: Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend story was a hoax

Two things ...

1. Has anyone looked into Te'o's phone records?

Because that could explain/reveal A LOT ... such as, were there even any calls? And if there were, does the number belong to someone he knows? And if you're Te'o's family, wouldn't you release phone records to prove Manti was constantly talking to this woman (or at least that number) to prove his claims?

2. Swarbrick said Notre Dame didn't reach out to Lennay Kekua's family to offer condolences following her death from cancer ... I find that surprising that a university wouldn't do that given the circumstances at the time of her "death" and Te'o's status at ND.

 

no, I wrote it simp,y so you would understand it. My fault, it wasn't as simple as you.

 

I don't know many funerals that are held 10 days after the death either. Maybe they had to wait for the fake girlfriend's fake family to fly in from Hawaii.

 

This was all foretold by the prophets known as Air Supply.

 

Birthers, I mean Deathers, will probably demand a Hawaiian certificate.

 

Jesus - this is simple. Somebody tweet Eric Hansen from the SBT - was he making shit up about how they met, or was Manti?

Why are all those involved not asking or answering this question?

 

Matt Sussman ‏@suss2hyphens

Craig James killed five Manti Te'o girlfriends

 

Remember the Catfish movie is likely fake, too.

 

I'd say it's not a true documentary. I believe they used a documentary style to make a movie "based on a true story".

I believe most of the story is basically true. But, how they learned everything may have been changed or altered to better tell the story.

Same thing with the TV show.

On each episode, they find the person, and get them to agree to meet. There's no way they're fling off to meet the person being "catfished" before doing some research, and knowing how the story is going to play out.

I don't believe the first time they check out the Facebook page, or do a google image search is when they've flown to a destination and begun rolling tape.

 

I wonder how the Honolulu Star-Advertiser blows this story out on Thursday's 1A.

 

Missed this on first reading ... Maybe it really was just his friend trying to get on the Catfish show. From Deadspin:

The hoax began crumbling around the edges late last year. On Nov. 4, 2012, an "U'ilani Rae Kekua," supposedly Lennay's sister, popped up on Twitter under the name @uilanirae.

Numerous Notre Dame fans sent U'ilani messages of condolence, and she responded with thanks.

A few weeks later, the @uilanirae account was deleted. The deletion came immediately after tweets from two now-suspended Twitter accounts had alleged that U'ilani was a fraud, that the same person behind Lennay was operating the U'ilani account, and that the images of "U'ilani" were really of a woman named Donna Tei.

Tei's Twitter account is @FreDonna51zhun; Fred Matua wore No. 51, and Tei's profile is full of pictures of herself with the late football star (and cousin of Tuiasosopo's). We showed U'ilani's Twitter avatar to one of Tei's friends, and he confirmed it was her.

In yet another now-deleted tweet, Tei herself reached out to Nev Schulman, star of the 2010 film Catfish and executive producer of the MTV program of the same title. Schulman's movie and show are about romantic deception through fake online personas.

Manti Te'o, meanwhile, has deleted his tweets mentioning U'ilani.

 

Gerry Callahan ‏@GerryCallahan

At first I didn't think anyone would buy Te'o's story. Then I checked: 1.7 million people voted for Liz Warren. Lots of suckers out there